Is it Me?

Is it me?

Are people getting more suspect and paranoid or is it just me? Because for the past couple of months I have seen and heard some pretty outrageous accusations. It just seems to me that people are becoming more and more unreasonable or maybe they use distrust toward others as a means of freeing their own conscience.In any case,I’m not sure what is going on, but whatever it is I will have to say that it just beyond my comprehension.

I am positive that there are some of you who know exactly where I'm going with this topic but for those of you who don't, I’m talking about the spouse who stands in the doorway listening to your phone conversation and asking “who is it, what do/did they want?” Or the husband or maybe wife who stays out all night and comes in the next morning only to pick a fight because you had the unmitigated gall to ask where he or she had been. Or maybe you were invited to a lunch by a mutual acquaintance of your best friend, but she wasn’t asked to join you and when she finds out she cops an attitude as if you have done something wrong. Chances are it will all work out with your friend but should you have to deal with this sort of crappola from casual acquaintances or worse yet total strangers?

I have to wonder if the times we live in are making us doubt each other and I wonder if this feeling isn’t being fed by the pundits and the spin doctors. Does having the media constantly telling us that there might be, could be,maybe a possible threat of something bad happening making us see a code red and be suspicious of everything and every person around us? If this is so then we have some serious problems.

It seems that the simplest things can become suspect. Whether it is having a winning streak in a scrabble game or putting a message on a public forum, there are people will actually read an ulterior motive or infer that you are gifted with being able to magically make the scrabble tiles change at your will. Get over yourself and admit you can't spell as well as you think you can, for Pete's sake it's just a game and that an anonymous message posted on a forum is not relaying some sort of secret code, covert operation or midnight rendezvous. People we have got to lighten up at least a little bit. Okay. I will back up here and say that maybe it isn’t everyone, and that it’s highly possible that I am a magnet for people who act this way. I sure as heck hope that I am. Because if this is the way that everyone is headed we are in a heap of trouble.

Now if you are reading this and thinking that I am talking about you… then chances are you are guilty of this type of behavior, and if you are reading this and associating these sorts of actions with people in your own life, send me an e-mail and let me know before I spend some major bucks at the Happy Home because I am really beginning to wonder if it’s them or if it’s me?